by pepeds on Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:11 pm ([msg=28375]see I thought I was going crazy!!![/msg])

Okay, so I got this one pretty quick simply tricking the code adding an alert, I had very quickly already seen the relevant portion of code, but I thought it was being parsed in my source code and not originally included there (silly me, I was using firebug)

nevertheless I still wanted to know how it worked, so I started deleting unnecessary portions until I was left with the following code:

[officially b0rked by thedotmaster. no spoilers please ]

To my surprise it still outputted the correct answer. I even copied it to a blank notepad and to my surprise it still worked!!!...

I considered every single possibility, like javascript libraries called [thedotmaster pwned this spoiler], intrinsic functions, you name it... I really thought I was getting crazy!!!... 20 minutes later now of course I know what was going on... you can laugh at me...